Copyright 2019, CABS for Reflections From the Fence
September 7, 2019
Pull out at 10:30, 73 degrees.
Just as we arrived last night we started getting a another loud banging noise. This morning, I rode back in the “house” and within 1/4 mile, determined, yep, the microwave again.
There’s a hardware store, pull in. Man goes in, buys a packet of wooden shims, even tho he thinks I’m looney, and my scheme won’t work. Gotta try, the noise is awful.
He takes the screws out of the frame, pulls the microwave out a bit, somehow, after breaking the shim, I manage to slide it under the front leg, we put the whole business back together, and, maybe? We are not sure, as we are running the generator and the “house” air so we cannot be sure.
Really on the road at 11.
And. Soon, we are no longer in high desert, or open plains. There are trees. Tall trees. Entire acres of trees. Deciduous trees. I no longer can see for miles. And, I miss it already.
Microwave fix, so far is holding. Last fix lasted from Olympic Peninsula till mid Nebraska, keeping our fingers crossed.
Prairie dogs spied on side of I-80.
Clouded up, aka, cooled off a bit. We accept. Thank you Mother Nature. We expect it may be cloudy and maybe wet for next couple of days.
Stopped at the Archway, the Great Platt River Road Archway Monument. We have blown past it at least twice in years past and Man remembered that we saw it too late to stop. He saw it this time, in time, and we took the hour and a half to go through the museum. They have the recordings you do with individual headphones. It was very nice, and we are happy to go, check on that bullet list item.
The museum is in the arch, two levels.
Hey big fella - -
This is "A Narrow Escape", by David L. Biehl, 2011.
The story inside the museum starts here - -
The displays are multi levels. Including the ceilings, lights, sound, the recordings, artifacts.
Time moves on and now, we are traveling the Lincoln Road and camping out each night. Catch the signs and the mileage in the 3 months - -
We do love our roadside cafes - -
Man flirting with his waitresses.
At one point they have 2 of these windows, you can look out at the traffic on I-80. The other window sports a radar detector. I did not see any speeders, all under the limit.
Look how tall that black-eyed susan is!!
Nothing better than floating away a late warm summer day - -
Cross the river there is a trail with some informational signs and some buffalo of a different sort -
Pulled into our campground about 6 pm. Corn fields surround us, corn is looking good by the way. Also some creatures making a lot of noise, I suspect cicadas. A reference I found online stated that the loud buzzing sound outside, that sounds like buzzing power lines, that be cicadas. Yep, that was the sound. BUZZZZZZ.
Central time zone. Half of our toys auto reset. About the time we get home we might get all this electronic time reset stuff figured most! Lol. We have one more chance at it.
Pretty sun set.
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